THE  TRUTH 
OF  LIFE 


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STUART.  THE  PRINTER 


PALO    ALTO,    CALIFORNIA 


This  little  volume  was  written  through  inspiration. 

And  the  writings  which  compose  this  volume  were  written 
through  the  hand  of  this  medium  by  inspiration  at  different 
intervals  with  great  velocity  of  speed  and  spiritual  power. 

They  have  been  written  with  great  hope  to  make  the  Bible 
plain  to  many  who  are  yet  uncertain  of  this  life  and  the  laws 
of  God. 

Therefore  they  are  published  with  great  sincerity  in  bring- 
ing many  into  this  truth. 

INESS  ARNOLD. 


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INDEX 

Page 

1.  Synopsis  of  the  Holy  Bible.  5 

2.  God  the  Creator.  8 

3.  Father,  the  Son,  and  the  Holy  Ghost  are  one.  11 

4.  Facts  of  Jesus'  birth  and  His  life  on  earth.  13 

5.  Every  human  race  worships  God.  17 

6.  The  Father  concerning  God  and  life's  mystery.  20 

7.  The  ascension  and  descension  of  life.  26 

8.  The  spiritual  spheres.  29 

9.  This  life  could  be  a  peaceful  one.  33 


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CHAPTER  I 
Synopsis  of  the  Holy  Bibla     //«,  • 

We  will  give  to  you  these  writings  concerning  the  Holy 
Bible.  The  fact  remains  that  the  Bible  was  written  and  it  con- 
tains the  facts  and  spiritual  truths  from  Genesis  to  Revelations. 
The  Bible  in  many  instances  is  real  without  giving  it  the  spir- 
itual standpoint  of  view  and  therefore  it  is  read  and  passed  by 
as  a  book  of  fiction.  That  the  Bible  is  authentic  in  the  knowl- 
edge of  the  world.  The  Bible  has  disappearance  and  reap- 
pearance, assures  us  that  some  unseen  power  has  preserved  a 
copy,  so  the  records  should  not  be  lost  to  mankind;  the  spirit- 
ual powers  have  a  system  through  which  they  operate  and  are 
able  to  bring  this  truth  back  for  the  good  and  welfare  of  man. 
Do  we  not  read  in  the  early  Biblical  periods,  the  angels  deliv- 
ered the  word  jf  God  from  the  spiritual  spheres  unto  the  men- 
tal focus  of  man's  spiritual  vision  of  that  era.  Man's  under- 
standing of  God  in  that  period  was  very  limited,  and  so  it  is  of 
today;  not  many  have  the  full  understanding  of  the  spiritual 
powers,  when  the  word  of  God  was  given  unto  the  inspired 
men  of  that  day  they  were  called  prophets  and  seers.  For 
God  had  taken  great  care  to  choose  his  servants,  as  they  had 
to  serve  as  leaders  and  rulers  in  the  adjustment  of  his  great 
plan. 

It  must  be  remembered  and  understood  that  man's  under- 
standing of  God's  power  was  limited,  consequently  these  men 
were  looked  upon  as  great  men  as  they  understood  the  spirit- 
ual power.  As  we  are  now  in  the  beginning  of  this  great  book 
and  to  many  they  do  not  have  the  full  understanding  of  the 
creating  of  Adam  and  Eve,  this  has  been  a  great  question  in 
many  a  one's  mind.  As  they  do  not  understand  how  man 
can  be  created  like  God  when  he  is  not  material  in  body.  Man 
was  created  in  the  image  and  likeness  of  God  that  is  in  soul. 
Can  you  not  conceive  the  idea?  How  easy  it  -was  for  God, 
after  creating  the  physical  body  of  Adam  to  inspire  that  body 
with  his  life.  This  body  made  of  earth  could  become  a  living 
animated  man  filled  with  the  God  life  as  God's  life  rules  over 
all.  Therefore  God  is  male  and  female  in  order  to  have  a  crea- 
tive being  to  comply  with  the  natural  laws  of  earth.  He  cre- 
ated the  female  as  he  did  the  male,  which  he  did  as  stated  in 
Gen.  1-27  verse.  So  God  created  man  in  His  own  image,  in 
the  image  of  God  created  he  him  male  and  female,  created  he 
them.  To  create  male  and  female  was  to  multiply  the  people 


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of  earth  as  this  earth  was  created  for  man  and  that  man  might 
cultivate  and  improve  the  land.  With  man  and  this  great  re- 
productive and  creative  plan  gives  to  us  the  great  spiritual 
energy  or  force  from  God,  the  Creator,  as  we  are  in  the  image 
of  God  thiv"  force  is  used,  so  does  it  increase  within  the  God- 
head, And  there  will  be  no  exhaustion  in  this  force,  but  con- 
ti'uMl  renewal  for  as  we  go  along  in  life  and  use  this  force  the 
more  knowledge  we  bring  out  of  this  life,  therefore  we  are 
renewing  our  force  and  it  gives  an  outlet  to  the  great  spirit- 
ual energy  from  the  God-head.  This  earth  is  only  a  planet  and 
only  one  of  many  little  planets  in  God's  universe.  Think  of 
its  magnitude,  and  yet  God  fills  all  space  in  all  the  planets  in 
his  universe.  As  you  understand  this  gives  to  us  all  a  great 
spiritual  force  from  the  God  head  to  work  fr^m.  The  creation 
of  Adam  and  Eve  then  began  the  intelligent  awakening  as  liv- 
ing thinking  beings  as  God  had  created  them  in  his  own  image 
and  likeness,  they  also  had  the  intelligent  thinking  and  were 
increasing  steadily  into  multitudes,  and  by  their  intelligence 
they  then  saw  the  necessity  of  law  and  order.  Where  else 
could  they  receive  such  advice  from,  unless  from  God?  As 
they  were  of  the  first  generations,  who  could  instruct!  There 
was  no  one  before  them  but  God,  and  they  knew  of  his  power. 
God  saw  it  necessary  to  teach  his  children,  so  they  would  know 
of  this  great  spiritual  power,  thus  his  selection  of  men  whose 
minds  could  be  attuned  to  the  spiritual  vibration  were  at  once 
inspired,  and  their  vision  opened  that  they  could  see  the  power 
f  f  God  and  the  angels  who  brought  the  word  of  God.  They 
now  knew  of  this  great  spiritual  power,  otherwise  how  could 
the  people  know  that  these  messages  came  from  anywhere  if 
these  men  were  not  selected  and  their  minds  attuned  to  the 
spiritual  vibration?  How  were  they  to  know  of  any  other  life 
if  not  led  and  shown  ?  This  pives  us  from  the  beginning  pro- 
phets. As  God  had  required  prophets,  seers,  teachers,  and  heal- 
ers. God  has  brought  this  spiritual  vibration  to  man  on  earth, 
therefore  there  will  be  m  exhausti~n,  but  a  continual  renewal. 
This  great  book,  the  Holy  Bible,  is  well  named,  as  it 
contains  much  of  this  life,  it  contains  the  key  to  unlock  eter- 
nal life  to  all  mankind,  but  many  doubting  this  life  lose  sight 
of  the  key  and  oftimes  prefer  to  think  there  is  no  God  outside 
of  nature,  he  does  not  realize  that  every  being  in  life  has  a 
place  to  fill  and  each  one  has  their  own  place  to  fill.  We  must 
learn  all  cannot  fill  the  same  department  in  this  great  life,  yet 
every  department  in  this  preat  life  is  of  equal  value  in  per- 
fecting of  the  universe.  Some  are  attuned  to  one  kind  of  work 
while  another  a  different  work  to  perform.  God  has  intended 
for  all  to  go  on  and  on  and  fill  his  place  in  this  life  as  God 
fits  man  to  be  useful  in  this  life.  And  why  doubt  ye  that  som^ 
have  spiritual  visions  and  can  see  and  receive  messages  from 


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God  when  this  great  reproduction  and  creative  plan  gives  to 
us  the  great  spiritual  energy  and  force  from  God.  Why  doubt 
this  any  more  than  to  doubt  the  inventor?  Where  does  he  get 
his  idea  of  how  to  invent  something  to  be  used  by  man?  The 
thought  comes  to  him  from  somewhere,  as  he  is  living  in  one 
department  of  this  life  and  why  not  the  thought  to  the  seer 
came  from  somewhere.  We  are  all  of  the  same  life.  We  must 
carefully  study  the  Bible  and  take  in  consideration  of  the 
means  by  which  the  Bible  was  given  to  mortal  man  centuries 
ago  should  cause  you  to  see  the  great  truth  revealed  therein, 
which  can  never  be  destroyed  or  obliterated  from  man's  vision 
of  today  no  more  than  in  the  beginning  as  God  intended  for 
this  spiritual  growth  to  go  on  and  on  as  the  earth  became  more 
populated  and  that  as  the  race  becomes  more  spiritually  awak- 
ened they  will  see  a  greater  view  of  the  Bible  and  its  authen- 
ticity. If  we  study  this  great  spiritual  force  with  sincerity  we 
will  find  it  proves  the  fundamental  principles  of  life  which  sci- 
ence alone  can  not  prove.  We  must  never  lose  sight  of  the 
spiritual  for  without  this  spiritual  force  we  have  nothing  but 
an  empty  shell.  When  Adam  was  created  there  was  nothing 
but  a  shell  until  God  inspired  that  body  with  his  life  that  the 
body  could  become  a  living  animated  man  by  recognizing  this 
spiritual  power  and  you  become  an  illuminated  soul  vibrating 
with  all  that  is  Godlike  and  you  will  understand  your  relation 
to  God  and  to  the  universe,  and  with  this  understanding  of  the 
spiritual  power  you  will  become  capable  of  knowing  still 
greater  things  than  these. 

We  will  study  carefully  the  Bible  as  we  go  along  and  we 
find  the  Bible  embraces  all.  We  of  today  do  not  study  our  Bibles 
from  the  spiritual  standpoint  and  that  is  why  we  find  many 
who  disbelieve  in  this  spiritual  power,  and  they  do  not  under- 
stand the  fundamental  principles  of  life.  As  God  created 
Adam  and  Eve,  so  did  he  create  us,  likewise  we  all  take  God's 
life  into  our  bodies  and  become  a  living  animated  man.  The 
spiritual  powers  have  wonderful  means  and  system  through 
which  they  operate  for  the  good  and  welfare  of  man.  Conse- 
quently we  must  not  lose  sight  of  the  great  spiritual  power  if 
we  want  to  have  an  intelligent  awakening  as  living,  thinking 
beings.  Men  of  today  can  be  selected  for  instructors  if  they 
would  live  so  their  minds  could  be  attuned  to  the  spiritual  vi- 
bration. The  fact  remains  that  the  Bible  was  written  and  it 
contains  historical  facts  and  spiritual  truths  from  the  begin- 
ning of  the  book  to  the  end. 


CHAPTER  II 
God  the  Creator 

God  created  heaven  and  earth,  and  the  men  of  science  have 
tried  to  follow  up  the  mode  of  life  principles  in  order  to  solve 
the  problem  of  creation.     Once  it  was  convincing  that  the  the- 
ory of  unfolding  or  solved  preposterous   bibljcal   declaration 
of  creation  in  seven  days,  science  took  the  smallest  molecule 
down  to  the  lowest  form  of  animal  life  to  vegetable  from  the 
atom,  and  from  animal  to  man  science  has  gone  deep  into  the 
mysteries  of  life,  endeavoring  to  form  a  rational  conclusion  in 
solving  the  problem  of  creation.       He  has  discovered  natural 
law  through  each  form  and  he  endeavored  to  teach  that  from 
molecule.    Each  form  was  of  a  higher  type  with  man  with  his 
reasoning  faculty,  but  science   can  only  go  so   far,   for  they 
have  not  the  full  understanding  of  this  life;  with  all  of  this 
careful  research  and  years  of  study  they  can  not  solve  this  great 
problem,  they  can  only  go  just  so  far  and  can  proceed  no  fur- 
ther.    The  unseen  force  behind  the  visible  expressions,  which 
is  the  life  energy,  he  is  still  perplexed  to  explain.     Its  source 
and  origin  remain  in  the  obscure.     This  is  beyond  scientist,  as 
God  was  the  creator,  but  it  is  possible  for  the  science  to  gain 
knowledge  concerning  the  natural  law,  as  this  belonging  to 
the  world  also  through  gravitation,  vibration,  and  electricity 
combined  through  atmospheres,  he  may  learn  to  apply  them 
for  the  use  and  benefit  of  mankind.    Man  uses  all  this  wonder- 
ful power  and  after  all  they  never  have  found  out  what  is 
back  of  these  forces,  as  every  one  is  so  wonderfully  constructed, 
so  perfect  in  operation,  system  working  through  system,  does 
this  not  prove  that  they  are  abiding  in  the  law  of  attraction  or 
repulsion.     With  the  two  great  forces  in  nature,  like  creative 
and  also  destructive,  also  with  life  and  decay,  this  is  all  of  this 
wonderful  life  forces  which  no  man  has  had  the  spiritual  power 
to  come  forth  and  make  plain  this  complication  of  life  forces. 
We  have  found  that  nature  provides  a  wonderful  storehouse 
where    we    can    draw  from  for    our  great    supplies  to    carry 
us  on  in  life,  wherein  nothing  is  lost,  and  under  the  right  assim- 
ilation of  chemicals .  marvelous  results  are  produced,  but  we 
must  understand  the  system  in  which  to  use  these  chemicals 
so  they  will  produce  without  a  great  loss.    When  this  life  force 
departs  from  any  form  of  life,  decay  at  once  sets  into  opera- 
tion, but  the  life  force  returns  to  this  nature's  storehouse  of 
energy,  to  be  used  as  the  demand  requires,  when  the  atmo- 
sphere again  claims  the  elements,  can  you  not  understand  in 
a  greater  sense  evolution    may  be    a  factor    in  natural    law? 
The  two  great  forces,  creative  and  destructive,  and  the  using 
over  again  the  elements  from  decaying  form  in  rebuilding  other 
modes  of  life  so  perfect  in  operation  system  working  through 


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system,  all  abiding  by  this  life  law.  The  same  great  creative 
power  is  used  in  constructing  your  bodies,  as  we  all  come  from 
this  great  life  force.  It  matters  not  what  it  is,  for  in  all  forms 
of  life  there  is  a  constant  giving  and  receiving  of  renewed  en- 
ergy. The  physical  body  is  constantly  throwing  off  refuse, 
consequently  this  body  must  draw  to  it  a  new  supply  from 
somewhere,  therefore  can  you  not  conceive  how  it  is  possible 
that  life  is  evolutionary  in  the  life  force?  But  this  does  not 
cause  a  direct  or  distinct  growth,  for  the  refuse  thrown  off  this 
physical  body  must  be  replaced  by  a  new  supply.  This  body 
could  not  retain  this  life  did  it  not  draw  fr^m  this  nature's 
storehouse.  The  Biblical  explanation  of  creation  could  not  be 
more  perfect,  but  it  may  be  beyond  your  understanding,  and 
perhaps  not,  as  time  is  measured,  d^es  it  not  explain  how  the 
earth  first  was  without  form,  and  it  was  thus  until  it  was  b~rn 
from  some  other  system.  The  earth  bore  no  individual  form,  it 
remained  space  until  the  earth  took  the  right  magnetic  posi- 
tion to  receive  light  from  the  sun,  and  when  ^nce  on  its  right 
path,  it  gradually  drew  together  all  necessary  elements  to  form 
this  earth,  and  it  produced  wonderful  eruptions,  causing  and 
r-reatincr  bodies  of  water.  The  operation  of  this  eruption  pro- 
duced the  heights  and  levels  of  earth.  This  creation  all  had  to 
abide  by  natural  law  inherent,  by  abiding  by  this  natural  law 
it  gradually  produced  f^rms  "f  life.  This  ear^h  was  without 
living  beings  until  the  time  came  for  a  thinking  being  to  in- 
habit and  insist  the  perfection  of  your  wonderful  world.  God 
created  human  beings  and  all  living  creatures  of  earth. 

We  read  that  the  Bible  declares  that  God  said:  Let  the 
waters  brine  forth  abundantly  the  moving  creatures  that  hath 
life,  and  the  fowl  that  may  fly  above  the  earth  in  the  open 
firmament  of  heaven.  This  is  the  point  we  must  acknowledge 
that  behind  all  is  God,  f^r  he  is  the  supreme  power,  or  in 
other  words,  the  life  force  unsolvable  by  man.  We  will  admit 
God's  operation  may  be  ascertained  the  law  through  which  he 
manifests,  but  not  God  of  himself.  As  we  go  further  into  this 
creation  we  find  man  was  created  in  the  imasre  and  likeness 
of  God.  Read  I.  Gen  26  to  31  verse — 2  Gen.  7th  verse.  We 
learn  the  trinity  created  in  man  in  part — the  s^ul,  spirit  and 
mortal  man  these  three  combined  makes  three  in  one.  Also 
the  Godhead  consists  of  the  trinity,  God  the  father,  the  son  and 
the  Holy  Ghost ;  this  is  three  in  one.  This  form  the  supreme 
power.  The  Holy  Ghost  is  the  overruling  soul  of  the  universe 
and  this  is  the  all  creative  bein<r  as  it  is  masculine  and  femi- 
nine. The  father  is  spirit  which  is  our  life.  The  son  is  God 
manifest  in  form.  This  is  why  God  created  man  in  the  image 
and  likeness  of  him,  the  son,  known  as  Christ,  was  manifest  in 
form  that  he  may  come  in  touch  with  his  children  in  form  oi 
earth.  This  brings  you  one  with  the  father,  for  the  father  and 


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I  are  one.  Therefore  your  inheritance  by  birth,  as  the  father 
and  I  are  one.  This  brings  us  created  in  the  image  of  God. 
We  are  each  born  as  an  individual,  being  soul  with  mortal  man. 
Each  and  every  individual  being  comes  with  a  limitless  in- 
heritance to  God's  universe. 

Do  you  meditate  over  the  magnitude,  the  grandeur  as  you 
should  to  think  of  an  eternal  life  with  God?  m  You  should 
awaken  your  being  to  the  all  loving  wise  creator,  who  inher- 
ited you  to  God's  universe  that  his  children  of  earth  might 
know  him  more  closely  and  also  gave  form  through  Christ 
that  they  might  realize  more  obvious  of  his  loving  care  over 
all,  and  Jesus  was  a  physical  man  on  earth.  He  came  to  repre- 
sent God  and  to  give  a  representative  life  and  character  to 
live  up  to  that  this  generation  and  generations  to  come,  that 
ye  may  enter  into  the  Kingdom  of  heaven.  G°d  has  found  it 
necessary  to  manifest  at  previous  ages  according  to  intel- 
lectual of  the  age,  but.  as  the  spiritual  age  began  to  grow 
then  is  when  Christ  came  to  lead  the  way,  for  Christ  knew  it 
will  be  the  only  guide  for  ages  upon  ages  for  man  to  accom- 
plish the  full  understanding  of  the  God  life  that  rules  this 
world  and  in  worlds  to  ccme  and  so  on  in  other  worlds.  Man 
will  understand  that  it  is  God's  love  and  law  that  reigns 
throughout  the  universe.  Therefore  you  are  created  in  the 
image  of  God,  you  are  the  reflection  in  the  material,  the  ex- 
ternal world.  Now  that  you  are  of  the  spiritual  being  you 
will  be  on  the  interior  or  the  spiritual  sphere.  As  you  awaken 
more  and  more  to  this  spiritual  power  you  will  learn  to  draw 
from  the  God  head,  the  storehouse  of  energy  that  nature  has 
provided  for  you,  as  all  power,  all  truth,  all  love,  lies  there  in, 
and  by  learning  to  draw  from  this  great  life  force  you  will 
become  more  Christ  like.  If  the  men  of  science  would  learn  to 
follow  up  the  mode  of  life  principles,  in  the  spiritual  way  they 
would  come  in  touch  with  this  great  life  force  which  would 
bring  much  wisdom  to  them  in  many  facts  that  they  are  still 
perplexed  to  explain.  As  the  father  and  I  are  one  you  can 
come  in  touch  with  this  all  supreme  power  if  you  learn  to 
draw  from  the  God  head,  your  being  expands  and  you  are  capa- 
ble of  knowing  all  these  things  for  your  s^ul  vibrates  with  all 
that  is  God-like. 


CHAPTER.  HI 

The  Father,  the  Son,  and  the  Holy  Ghost  Are*One 
The  Bible  speaks   of  the  father,   the   son  and  the   Holy 
Ghost,  but  not  many  in   reading  this   understand  it    to    be    as 
one  being.    Man  was  created  in  the  image  and  likeness  of  God. 
Now  that  man  was  created  in  the  image  and  likeness  of  God 
you   can   more   readily   understand   the    explanation   showing 
man  to  be  composed  of  three  parts,  yet  all  one.  the  soul,  spirit 
and  the  physical  body.    The  soul  is  something  you  can  not  see ; 
it  represents  the  inner  life  force ;  while  the  spirit  is  the  individ- 
uality which  takes  form  to  the  soul,  and  is  the  individuality 
expressing  itself  through  the  personality  of  the  mortal  or  phy- 
sical bod}\      This  you  understand,  is  three  in  one.  which  forms 
the  human  being,  and  when  the  spirit  frees  itself  from  the 
physical  body  it  then  becomes  the  direct  body  of  the  soul,  but 
this  change  does  not  come  without  changing  form,  for  as  the  < 
s^iil  deveL  ps  in  understanding  then  does  the  spiritual  form 
become  much  more  radiant,  thus  the  change  it  is  destined  to, 
which  you  distinguish  as  a  new  birth  yet  without  decay,  as  this 
physical  body  must  decay,  for  this  body  is  born  from  the  earth 
plane,    there  are  millions  of  planets  that  are  so  dwarfed  that 
they  scarcely  can  be  named  intelligent  beings.    Altho  the  soul 
spark  of  God's  life  is  there,  it  is  these  planets  whom  your 
writers  try  to  explain,  by  expressing  their  thoughts  in  perplex- 
ing and  confusing  words,  such  as  astral  cosmic  and  elementary. 
It    is    useless   to    confuse    the    mind  with    such    ideas,    as    no 
living  being  on  earth  can  explain  reasonably  in  language  what 
is  beyond  this  world.    You  must  learn  to  reason  out  all  things 
for  yourself  and  endeavor  to  rise  superior  to  all  conditions 
which  would  have  a  degrading  tendency  towards  your  life.    If 
you  do  not  rise  superior  to  all  conditions  it  will  cause  you  to 
become  dwarfed  on  entering  the  spiritual  realm.     You  must 
live  so  the  soul  is  not  hindered  from  growth.     If  the  soul  is 
hindered  in  growth  then  the  spirit  is  similarly  effected  and 
becomes  dull  instead  of  growing  bright  in  its  own  light.     The 
spirit  must  grow  or  consequently  it  can  only  partially  express 
itself,  sometimes  to  almost  lose  consciousness.       You  are  all 
beings  on  earth  and  you  must  receive  a  physical  and  material 
experience.     With  this  material  experience  you  grow  or  be- 
come dull,  for  the  object  of  life  on  earth  and  other  mode  of 
vibration  which  pertains  to  physical  existence,  is  for  the  spir- 
itual growth  on  earth.     There  may  be  a  difference  in  physical 
appearance,  but  the  experience  necessary  is  similar.     What  is 
termed  spirit  life  is  the  same  unto  all.    After  having  discarded 
the  material  body,    spirit   spheres    are  all  around  about    you 
everywhere,  consequently  there  is  no  limit  to  space.  The  spirit- 
ual world  is  a  wonderful  world  but  you  must  understand  it  is 
not  a  body;  it  is  an  atmosphere,  yet  more  solid  and  more  real 


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than  the  planet  earth.  As  the  earth  can  be  shattered  and  reduced 
to  nothing,  but  never  the  space  of  limitless  activity  as  this  space 
is  endless  and  indestructible,  this  space  consisting  of  spheres 
each  in  its  own  vibration  from  fine  to  finer  through  all  eter- 
nity. Can  you  not  readily  perceive  how  there  are  different 
spheres  for  spirits  vibrate?  As  each  individual  lives  their 
own  life  and  as  they  develop  their  life  they  are  placed  accord- 
ing to  their  fitness  in  these  spiritual  spheres.  -We  read  in  S. 
John,  14  Chapter,  2  verse:  In  my  father's  house  are  many  man- 
sions; the  mansions  are  beheld  in  the  different  spheres  in 
heaven.  These  spheres  all  receive  their  directing  forces,  power 
and  energy  from  the  center  sphere  which  is  the  Godhead  and 
it  is  so  intensely  bright  and  glorified  that  none  can  compre- 
hend its  glory  until  perfect.  This  is  the  center  of  all  life 
which  throws  out  its  rays  to  all  spheres  and  there  is  no  limit  or 
boundary,  the  reason  is  that  these  multitudinous  rays  pene- 
trate and  reach  every  sphere  and  every  atom  of  life.  This  is 
what  causes  vibration  and  every  force  in  life.  All  along  these 
endless  rays  are  different  rates  of  vibration  and  electricity 
performing  their  special  operations  in  moulding  system  upon 
system  in  their  special  atmosphere  for  the  maintenance  and 
individual  forms  of  life.  This  includes  the  life  of  every  living 
creature,  or  vegetable  and  mineral,  for  all  has  this  life  force 
within  it.  It  would  decay  had  it  not.  You  could  all  receive  an 
understanding  of  God's  wonderful  magnitude.  However,  you 
can  know  of  God  within  your  being  and  then  you  would  be- 
come God  conscious,  and  you  would  then  live  to  higher  things, 
which  would  fit  you  for  a  higher  sphere.  You  will  also  read  in 
S.  John,  14  Chapter,  26  verse :  But  the  comforter,  which  is  the 
Holy  Ghost  whom  the  father  will  send  in  my  name,  he  shall 
teach  you  all  things  to  your  remembrance.  Whatsoever  I  have 
said  unto  you."  Does  this  not  make  plain  to  you  that  the  God- 
head consists  of  three  in  one,  God  the  father,  the  son,  and  the 
Holy  Ghost.  There  is  much  you  can  do  in  beautifying  the  soul 
of  man,  for  the  mortal  man  can  fill  his  life  with  the  God  life 
and  become  a  glorified  being,  that  his  spirit  may  shine  in  radi- 
ance through  the  eyes,  which  will  reflect  the  divine  rays  of 
Christ's  love  to  greet  all  in  life's  pathway,  by  living  a  Christ 
life  makes  the  face  an  object  of  beauty  as  you  have  lived  with- 
in the  intensely  bright  and  glorified  rays  of  life,  thus  prepar- 
ing you  for  a  place  in  the  father's  house,  for  God  has  told  us 
so.  He  said  and  if  I  go  and  prepare  a  place  for  you,  I  will 
come  again  and  receive  you  unto  myself  that  where  I  am 
there  ye  may  be  also.  This  proves  that  the  soul  represents  the 
inner  life  force  that  the  father  and  I  are  one,  the  father,  the 
son,  and  the  Holy  Ghost,  thus  three  in  one.  Therefore  mortal 
man  can  fill  his  life  with  the  God  life. 


CHAPTER  IV 
Facts  of  Jesus'  Birth  and  His  Life  on  Earth 

Jesus'  birth  has  always  remained  a  mystery  in  the  minds 
of  many  people.  No  other  subject  has  caused  so  great  a  com- 
ment, or  difference  of  opinion,  individually,  as  this  concerning 
the  physical  birth  of  Jesus.  Many  declare  this  fact  an  impos- 
sibility, that  nature  never  operates  in  contradiction  of  her 
steadfast  laws  and  have  man  believing  in  reincarnation.  He 
can  see  the  possibility  of  a  soul  returning  to  earth  and  going 
through  the  natural  process  of  gestation  in  order  to  secure  a 
physical  body,  wherein  to  cloth  the  spirit  for  another  earthly 
life  of  activity  among  men,  while  others,  through  the  means 
of  the  Holy  Bible,  accept  the  word  of  God,  and  believe  through 
faith  in  the  genuineness  of  the  writers  of  that  period,  the 
Christians  accept  this  as  God's  power  and  his  law  in  life,  from 
the  natural  scientist's  opinion  we  find  that  he  argues  of  possi- 
bilities in  life  only  through  means  of  natural  law.  This  takes 
us  very  deep  into  this  subject.  You  may  ask  what  is  natural 
law  ?  Do  you  understand  what  creates  the  power  to  operate 
through  nature  ?  You  surely  know  some  force  must  work 
through  law  and  system.  You  say  what  is  it?  Does  it  not 
seem  possible  that  nature  must  have  some  intelligence  to  di- 
rect her  force  into  the  operation  of  producing  natural  effects. 
Xow  intelligence  cannot  produce  an  intelligent  effect.  Why 
is  it  science  has  gone  thus  far,  but  can  go  no  further?  As 
scientist  is  now  satisfied  with  nature's  law  of  cause  and  ef- 
fect, therefore  come  as  it  may  through  evolution  or  the  law 
of  gravity  he  is  self  satisfied,  and  yet  he  has  not  answered 
these  questions  outside  of  the  material  standpoint  of  view. 

There  are  many  who  believe  in  reincarnation  and  they 
are  satisfied  to  believe  in  the  re-embodiment  of  the  soul  in 
flesh.  This  they  are  not  able  to  find  any  proof  whatsoever. 
They  have  found  nothing  even  from  the  Bible,  to  give  them 
assurance  of  their  belief.  It  is  merely  philosophizing  and 
deceiving  the  mind  through  mystifying  teaching's  from  ancient 
Hinduism.  They  have  gained  no  definite  knowledge  through 
what  they  call  their  reasonable  conclusions.  There  are  many 
who  have  a  greater  understanding  of  life  and  they  are  Chris- 
tians who  turn  to  the  Bible  for  their  guidance  and  proof.  The 
birth  of  Jesus  has  been  written  out  so  plain  in  the  Bible  that 
he  believes  it  to  be  the  truth.  And  the  word  of  God  the  Chris- 
tians also  believe  that  Jesus  gained  his  entrance  into  physical 
form  through  immaculate  conception  of  the  Virgin  Mary.  They 
believe  Jesus,  the  son  of  God,  being  born  through  the  gesta- 
tion of  the  Virgin  Mary  by  immaculate  conception.  Can  you 
not  reason  out  this  immaculate  conception?  As  God  has  power 
over  all  things,  can  he  not  make  it  a  spotless  conception  which 


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overshadowed  Mary  by  the  Holy  Ghost,  claiming  it  to  mean  a 
morally  spotless,  St.  Luke  I.  Chapter  35  verse,  and  the  angels 
answered  and  said  unto  her,  the  Holy  Ghost  shall  come  upon 
thee  and  the  power  of  the  highest  shall  overshadow  thee; 
therefore  also  that  holy  things  which  shall  be  born  of  thee 
shall  be  called  the  Son  of  God. 

You  will  also  read  in  previous  chapter  how  God  operates 
by  means  of  a  perfect  plan  from  the  center  to  the  without  of 
endless  activity.  As  God  is  the  supreme  power  nothing  is  too 
great  for  him  and  he  rules  all  life.  This  is  where  he  found  it 
necessary  for  a  personality  so  he  could  come  closer  to  the 
conscientiousness  of  man's  understanding,  as  man  was  drifting 
from  this  truth.  He  also  saw  the  necessity  of  Jesus  being  born 
in  order  that  man  could  grasp  the  idea  of  God  through  form. 
Man's  great  failing  is,  he  must  have  some  tangible  evidence 
before  his  mind  can  grasp  or  he  will  believe  in  what  has  been 
told  him  in  the  Bible.  When  evidence  is  presented,  man  is 
prone  to  disbelieve  or  doubt  this  is  due  to  intellectual  reason- 
ing and  not  awakening  the  spiritual  knowledge  of  the  divine 
life  and  its  possibilities  beyond  the  limitation  of  mortal  con- 
ception regarding  the  God  life,  which  reasons  alone  can  not 
explain.  You  all  know  and  must  admit  that  there  is  an  over- 
ruling power  named  God,  who  is  the  life  force  of  the  uni- 
verse. Does  it  not  look  reasonable  that  he  understands  what  is 
most  needed  and  how  to  comply  with  necessities?  Would  he 
not  have  knowledge  of  the  perfect  law,  and  power  to  use  and 
operate  as  he  sees  fit  ?  As  God  is  the  creative  life,  and  having- 
intelligence  and  personality,  therefore  he  is  wisdom,  love  and 
truth ;  he  has  the  power  in  directing,  moulding  and  creating  all 
forms  of  life ;  through  this  intelligence  is  the  force  which  pro- 
duces results ;  these  results  you  conceive  in  your  mind  and  be- 
hold them  thorugh  the  physical  means  of  the  vision  of  the  eyes. 
God  saw  that  the  time  had  come  on  earth  when  a  greater  spir- 
itual awakening  was  necessary  to  guide  the  people  upward  to 
higher  ideals  through  life,  and  to  do  this  God  must  come  in 
personal  contact  with  the  people  of  earth  that  they  might 
have  the  express  evidence  by  which  their  physical  eyes  could 
see,  and  their  ears  could  hear  the  truth,  otherwise  the  people 
of  earth  would  never  believe  that  the  all  supreme  power  was 
God.  And  as  you  must  know  God  works  through  system  for 
how  could  everything  be  so  perfectly  done  if  he  did  not.  God 
chose  his  angel  to  appear  to  John  the  Baptist,  and  told  them 
that  one  would  follow  who  would  not  baptize  with  water,  but 
the  baptism  would  be  of  the  Holy  Ghost.  The  prophecy  also 
came  to  the  wise  men  concerning  the  birth  of  Jesus,  thus  giv- 
ing to  them  the  truth.  You  can  not  doubt  this,  for  many  refer- 
ences are  given  in  the  Bible  leading  up  to  the  birth  of  Jesus 
through  the  Virgin  Mary.  It  is  through  God's  chosen  angels 


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that  his  word  is  carried  to  man.  He  has  used  this  means  of  in- 
structing the  people  from  the  beginning  of  the  world  up  to 
the  birth  of  Jesus,  the  crucifixion  of  Jesus,  and  unto  the  pres- 
ent day.  As  God  works  through  system  and  this  being  a  law 
in  the  sphere  of  unseen  force  of  communication  this  intelligent, 
life  is  therefore  open  to  all  states  of  spirits.  You  will  read  in 
the  Bible  to  try  the  spirits  if  of  good  purpose  or  of  evil  motive, 
consequently  the  Bible  has  given  you  this  warning.  You  really 
understand  that  God  took  various  ways  and  means  through 
different  men  to  give  his  word  and  law  unto  the  children  of 
earth.  Do  you  not  know  that  God  is  the  creative  force  through 
life?  Realize  then  the  power.  Can  not  he  create  of  himself 
by  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  Mary  know  not  a  man?  For  the  spirit 
is  not  of  flesh.  You  understand  that  although  the  spirit  en- 
tered Mary,  God  knew  it  would  be  necessary  to  abide  by  na- 
ture's law  and  receive  a  natural  physical  birth,  for  had  not 
the  birth  of  his  son  been  in  a  physical  form  he  could  not  come 
among  man,  for  God  wanted  his  son  to  come  among  man,  as  one 
with  them,  not  one  of  them,  for  he  was  of  the  Holy  Ghost. 
Again  turn  to  Luke,  1st  Chapter,  34  and  35  verses:  Then 
said  Mary  unto  the  angel,  how  shall  this  be,  seeing  I  know 
not  a  man?  And  the  angel  answered  and  said  unto  her,  the 
Holy  Ghost  shall  come  upon  thee  and  the  power  of  the  High- 
est shall  overshadow  thee,  therefore  also  that  holy  thing 
which  shall  be  born  of  thee  shall  be  called  the  Son  of  God. 
Concentrate  a  moment  on  this:  shall  be  called  the  son  of  God. 
You  may  turn  to  the  Chapter  en  the  Father,  the  son  and  the 
Holy  Ghost ;  this  endeavors  to  prove  that  the  three  are  in  one. 
Xow  again  to,  shall  be  called  the  Son  of  God ;  does  this  not 
conform  to  the  intelligence  of  man  that  men  could'  feel  the 
relationship  of  Jesus  through  the  physical  birth,  now  that 
men  are  born  by  means  of  physical  birth,  man  must  also  die  a 
physical  death.  Man  being  born  of  flesh  he  must  also  suffer 
as  man  in  the  flesh  suffered.  But  man  has  been  taught  the 
spiritual  life  and  their  relation  to  God  the  creator.  He  also 
taught  man  the  spiritual  life  after  physical  death.  He  proves 
the  spiritual  law  of  life  to  be  greater  than  the  natural  law. 
This  spiritual  law  is  of  eternal.  Man  is  in  the  natural  world  of 
death  and  decay ;  he  is  here  for  a  short  period  to  perf onn 
his  duties  on  earth  and  then  a  change,  or  in  other  words,  a 
process  of  changing  from  one  form  of  life  into  another.  When 
the  spirit  leaves  the  physical  form  it  passes  through  this 
change  called  death.  After  passing  through  this  change  you 
are  a  spiritual  being  now  of  all  life  eternity  and  know  of  no 
more  decay  as  the  physical  form  is  left  on  earth,  for  dust  thou 
art  and  unto  dust  shalt  thou  return.  Jesus  taught  to  the  people 
while  on  earth  the  results  of  a  good  life  or  of  an  evil  life.  He 
came  direct  from  the  God  head  to  man  with  the  spiritual  rays 


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of  life.  You  will  read  in  the  Bible  when  referring  to  Jesus  it 
always  refers  to  Jesus  as  being  a  physical  man,  but  where 
Christ  is  referred  to  notice  at  once  you  are  taken  to  God.  From 
the  sense  derived  from  the  writing  the  disciples  wanted  to 
live  the  life  of  Christ  teachings,  and  they  knew  the  difference 
between  God  and  the  physical  man,  because  they  had  their 
spiritual  vision  opened,  and  the  power  was  giy-en  unto  them. 
The  same  is  open  unto  you  of  today.  Just  as  soon  as  you  de- 
sire to  live  Christlike  the  spiritual  door  is  opened  wide  and 
you  may  enter  into  the  Kingdom  of  God.  You  then  become 
God  conscious.  It  matters  not,  man  and  women  are  both  the 
same  in  God's  life.  By  becoming  God  conscious  you  then  are 
illumined  by  this  ray  of  light  which  Jesus  brought  to  man, 
consequently  you  receive  the  comfort  and  you  know  whereof 
you  speak.  There  would  be  no  other  way  for  you  to  know 
only  through  the  spiritual  senses,  and  as  you  live  and  become 
awakened  so  does  your  spiritual  vision  widen.  This  at  one  time 
may  have  seemed  impossible  to  your  mind,  but  as  you  live  the 
Christ  teachings  it  becomes  possible  and  a  reality  so  it  is  with 
the  birth  of  Christ  through  the  Virgin  Mary.  It  is  a  possibility 
and  it  is  real.  You  can  not  judge  God's  power  through  mortal 
vision  and  reason.  You  can  not  live  mortal  and  judge  spiritual. 
You  must  enter  into  the  spiritual  to  know  of  spiritual  things, 
this  is  why  so  many  do  not  understand  the  birth  of  Jesus 
through  the  Virgin  Mary.  They  do  not  realize  that  God  is 
the  creative  force  through  life  and  this  is  of  the  spiritual  pow- 
er not  of  mortal  man ;  when  you  once  become  awakened  to  the 
spiritual  sense  of  life  you  will  then  become  awakened  to  the 
truth  that  there  is  nothing  impossible  in  the  sight  of  God. 
Ponder  a  moment  and  think,  is  the  birth  of  Jesus  born  through 
the  Holy  Ghost,  impossible,  any  more  than  the  creation  of  this 
earth.  It  all  come  through  the  all  supreme  power  which  rules 
all  things.  Live  more  in  spiritual  things  and  know  of  spir- 
itual things,  for  the  angel  said  unto  them,  fear  not,  for  behold 
I  bring  you  good  tidings  of  great  joy. 


CHAPTER  V 
Every  Human  Race  Worships  God 

Is  it  not  a  fundamental  fact  through  all  history  that  all 
religions  have  tendencies  toward  the  elevation  of  mankind,  it 
matters  not  what  religion  it  is  or  what  nation  it  is.  Although 
much  elaboration  in  quoting  great  authors  could  be  written 
upon  this  proposed  subject,  it  is  not  the  intention  to  convey  the 
literal  expressions  from  other  minds.  All  may  be  historical 
facts,  whether  from  the  Christian  Bible  or  from  ancient  India 
regarding  the  teachings  of  spiritual  leaders ;  the  thought  is  sim- 
ply to  teach  that  the  region  known  as  the  Oriental  teachings, 
such  as  India,  Japan,  Persian,  Egypt,  or  China;  these  Oriental 
teachings  were  all  clothed  by  a  shroud  of  mystery  better  known 
as  mysticism.  We  could  carry  you  into  this  subject  more  deep- 
ly, but  it  is  not  necessary  as  you  can  gain  all  such  knowledge 
by  referring  to  the  great  books  in  the  public  libraries.  Much 
reference  could  be  given  as  illustration  from  especial  leaders 
of  early  ages.  As  you  give  these  different  religions  a  thought 
you  will  be  brought  to  a  better  understanding  concerning  the 
teachings  of  ancient  religions  and  illustrations  from  them,  and 
show  the  advantage  of  the  Christian  religion  that  has  been 
gained  over  all  other  religious  teachings. 

It  is  known  as  a  fact  through  all  history  that  all  religious 
have  a  tendency  towards  the  elevation  of  all  mankind,  even 
to  the  heathen,  as  you  may  class  those  people ;  they  have  their 
way  of  expressing  their  thoughts,  although  it  may  appear  very 
crude  to  you  in  comparison  to  the  intelligence  of  the  twentieth 
century;  but  these  ancient  people  held  the  same  meaning  and 
feeling  within  their  spiritual  consciousness.  Their  religion  has 
a  tendency  toward  the  elevation,  or  in  other  words,  from  error, 
on  and  upwards  unto  perfection  from  mortal  unto  the  immor- 
tal, or  material  to  the  spiritual.  All  religions  have  the  same 
tendency.  As  man  has  recognized  that  he  could  not  have  come 
from  nothing,  he  knows  today  as  in  the  past  ages  that  of  him- 
self alone  he  could  not  exist.  One  and  all  have  their  sense  of  a 
greater  spiritual  life,  even  the  cannibal  was  not  totally  without 
spiritual  conception,  although  he  did  eat  the  flesh  of  human 
beings,  the  devouring  of  his  own  kind  does  not  prove  total  spir- 
itual depravity.  He  gazed  with  wonder  and  reverential  fear  at 
the  sun,  moon,  and  stars,  and  all  that  nature  portrays;  he  did 
not  have  the  fluent  language  to  express  his  feelings,  the  sensa- 
tion of  geatness  of  all  that  his  eyes  could  behold  was  there  and 
in  his  crude  way  he  worshipped  something  which  he  felt  was 
beyond  him  as  you  all  readily  understand  that  the  cannibal 
have  not  book  learning,  so  you  see  this  something  that  he  was 
worshiping  was  not  that  which  he  obtained  through  study  from 
the  thought  of  great  thinkers  expressed  in  books.  Yet  they 


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were  conscious  of  some  great  power  within  and  without  to  some 
degree  even  regardless  of  education.  It  is  not  always  educated 
men  who  recognize  this  God  life,  from  this  stage  of  human  be- 
ings with  no  book  knowledge  have  arisen  the  intelligent  race, 
for  they  worked  out  this  life  problem  in  a  way  of  their  own. 
The  cannibal  was  not  the  first  to  exist,  but  they  were  isolated 
and  away  from  all  intelligent  thinkers  and  educated  men,  yet 
this  wonderful  spark  of  celestial  being  was  within  these  beings, 
as  every  human  race  has  had  a  spiritual  leader  who  has  been 
able  to  serve  the  power  of  explaining  of  God  though  they  were 
weak  and  worshiped  images,  yet  they  endeavored  to  carry  the 
people  of  his  nation  unto  spiritual  freedom.  It  was  great  dif- 
ficulty after  misapprehension,  and  after  once  established  in  the 
mind  and  passed  on  through  generations,  it  is  very  difficult  to 
put  an  end  to  idol  worshiping  for  man  of  today  is  not  totally  a 
free  spiritual  mind  being.  The  Christian  errrr  gave  births  to 
a  religion  freed  from  man  created  gods  unto  the  glorious  under- 
standing of  one  God  the  father.  This  came  through  the  teach- 
ings of  Jesus  Christ.  You  also  have  the  teachings  of  Ancient 
India  or  Egypt.  We  find  among  those  people  a  desire  to  rise 
to  a  greater  spiritual  understanding  and  many  of  these  teach- 
ings still  clothe  their  thoughts  and  feelings,  and  aspirations  into 
moulded  forms  of  Gods.  These  people  are  far  enough  advanced 
in  thought  that  when  their  minds  could  soar  upward  towards 
a  conception  of  a  greater  spiritual  life  and  yet  their  minds  must 
have  the  thought  in  the  form  of  an  image.  This  is  done  to 
bring  near  the  minds  eyes  that  there  is  a  supreme  power  far 
greater  than  themselves.  The  image  worshiping  was  the  begin- 
ning of  mental  slavery.  Man  did  not  understand  this  God  life 
so  he  created  images  to  convey  to  his  mind  the  interpretation* 
of  the  God  he  desired  to  worship. 

You  will  learn  this  was  the  beginning  of  enslaving,  mysti- 
fying the  mind  of  the  people,  which  had  a  very  marked  tend- 
ency of  degeneracy  to  the  spiritual  part  of  man.  You  can  carry 
this  down  through  all  ages,  even  unto  this  day.  As  there  wTas 
not  much  advancement  in  the  spiritual  part  of  men,  God  saw  it 
necessary  to  come  in  some  way  to  his  people  and  free  them 
from  the  slavery  of  the  worship  of  images  and  priests  or  rulers 
of  kingdoms,  and  to  do  this  Jesus  was  sent  at  that  time  to  give 
unto  the  world  the  real  truth  of  God's  life  and  to  show  the 
Direct  way  unto  God,  without  means  through  images  or  human 
agencies.  We  have  learned  that  Christ  taught  the  way  to  God 
through  prayer.  We  have  been  lead  to  know  God  by  spiritual 
consciousness  in  direct  communion.  Christ  taught  the  differ- 
ence between  darkness  and  the  light.  He  may  have  used  other 
means  to  illustrate  his  thoughts,  but  we  have  never  been  told 
that  he  used  images  to  convey  his  meaning;  never  did  he  mys- 
tify his  followers  with  strange  delusions  in  pointing  the  way 


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to  God.  Jesus  did  appreciate  nature,  but  he  never  referred  to 
nature  as  God  the  father.  Jesus  taught  us  that  God  was  in  all 
and  through  all  and  that  was  beyond  all  that  human  eyes  could 
behold  was  God,  and  he  also  taught  that  the  Kingdom  of  God 
was  within.  You  were  not  taught  that  you  could  not  do  what 
Jesus  did  if  you  follow  the  true  life.  Jesus  said,  even  greater 
things  than  these  can  ye  do.  The  life  of  Jesus  was  simple  in 
every  way.  He  lived  this  life  to  show  you  that  it  was  not  such 
a  task  to  live  a  God  life.  And  yet  Jesus  did  this  wonderful 
healing  and  teaching.  People  marveled  at  the  things  which 
he  performed  in  healing  because  of  his  simple  life.  His  life  was 
not  false  and  mystifying  doings.  He  taught  the  people  that  his 
power  came  from  Gcd  and  no  other  source.  As  Jesus  knew  of 
his  power  and  was  positive  of  his  religion  this  gave  him  greater 
power,  but  many  times  he  felt  he  was  weak  in  his  power  and 
would  go  up  into  the  mountains  to  pray  for  greater  strength, 
that  he  might  fulfill  his  mission  while  on  earth.  This  should 
be  the  great  purpose  of  all  lives,  as  you  each  must  fulfill  your 
mission  on  earth  and  you  must  have  the  knowledge  of  greater 
source  than  of  yourself  to  draw  the  necessary  power  to  aid  you 
in  fulfillment  of  your  mission  on  earth.  When  you  once  become 
conscious  of  this  indestructible  fountain  in  God  and  to  know 
that  you  can  draw  all  power  to  you,  for  your  life's  mission, 
then  you  no  more  have  any  fear  of  this  great  life,  for  you  be- 
come strong  in  God's  life  and  in  the  Christ's  love,  for  it  is  only 
then  when  you  realize  your  mission  on  earth,  because  the  great- 
est desire  of  your  earthly  life  is  to  become  God  conscious  and 
you  are  awakened  from  the  slavery  of  the  darkened  ages  unto 
the  light  of  eternal  day.  Christ  left  the  light  for  you  to  see 
and  there  has  been  no  greater  light  than  that  which  Christ  has 
left.  Xot  even  yet  has  the  light  been  truly  seen,  but  by  the 
liberation  of  idols  and  personal  worship,  the  light  of  Christ  is 
becoming  clearer  and  clearer  into  the  minds  of  the  awakened 
spiritual  consciousness.  You  that  have  become  awakened  to 
this  Christ  light  know  that  for  generations  to  come,  that  light 
will  be  the  only  one  to  lighten  the  paths  of  the  children  of  earth. 
As  you  become  more  and  more  conscious  of  this  Christ  light, 
you  realize  that  the  spiritual  growth  is  slow  all  because  the 
errors  of  the  past  have  had  such  deep  roots,  but  as  all  have  wor- 
shiped to  the  best  of  their  knowledge  God  has  all  patience  and 
knows  no  destruction,  but  realizes  all  will  eventually  see  the 
light  and  live  eternally  in  his  life  of  everlasting  peace  and  un- 
derstanding. 0  man  of  man,  arise :  and  cast  aside  the  fetters 
which  have  enslaved  your  mind,  and  learn  the  way  into  the 
freedom  of  God's  life  which  is  not  of  bondage,  but  of  freedom 
and  everlasting  life.  This  life  is  indestructible.  Will  ye  not 
know  of  the  love  which  Christ  represented  to  you,  full  of  for- 
giveness to  all  who  are  in  the  dark,  learn  to  know  of  this  light 
and  be  ye  also  a  savior  of  men  while  on  this  earth? 


CHAPTER  VI 
The  Future  Concerning  God,  and  Life's  Mystery 

The  future  holds  much  for  man  if  he  only  would  grasp  this 
great  truth  of  this  life's.    It  does  not  remain  such  a  mystery 
if  you  would  only  search  for  more  wisdom  in  this  life  from  the 
beginning  of  the  period  of  man  and  through  all  ages.     There 
have  been  religious  tendencies  up  to  the  present  time,  and  many 
forms  of  religion  and  creeds,  many  ideas  of  doctrines,  concern- 
ing God  and  life 's  mystery,  have  sprung  from  the  religion  with- 
in man.    Each  idea  claiming  to  contain  a  clearer  insight.     Yet 
there  is  man  of  today  just  as  perplexed  in  endeavoring  to  de- 
scribe accurately  God  as  he  was  in  the  remotest  ages,  but  as 
generation  after  generation  comes  man  is  being  more  intelli- 
gent beings  to  realize  that  all  these  various  creeds  and  dogmas 
and  isms  are  but  drops  of  water  in  the  mighty  sea.    When  man 
lays  all  creeds  aside  and  becomes  sincere  and  searches  deeply 
he  will  discover  the  great  creation  of  his  own  being,  (consisting 
of  body,  spirit,  and  soul) ,  that  there  is  a  wonderful  intelligence 
operating  and  directing  its  life  and  source  of  existence.     He 
will  then  look  upon  the  natural  surroundings,  and  he  will  then 
behold  another  expression  of  this  wonderful  manifestation  of 
intelligence.     The  more  he  beholds     of  this  life's  beauty  still 
more  wonderful  everything  appears  to  him  because  he  now  re- 
alizes there  is  a  power  outside  of  himself,  and  this  power  oper- 
ates all  forms  of  life  and  the  law  by  which  life  expresses  itselfy 
as  he  finds  the  creation  of  his  own  being,  he  now  knows  that 
the  creation  could  not  have  sprung-  from  itself  alone.    Men  of 
science  have  endeavored  to  explain  life,  but  thus  far  have  failed 
in  analysis  of  its  original  source.     Science  can  define  the  com- 
positions and  relate  data  to  some  degree  of  natural  life  pertain- 
ing to  this  world,  and  have  given  some  idea  of  distance  in  space 
between  planets.  This  all  is  very  helpful,  enabling  man  to  grasp 
some  idea  of  the  immensity  of  space  in  this  world  and  yet 
there  is  much  more  beyond  man,  but  with  science  help  it  all 
leads  the  careful  student  to  appreciate  a  creative  plan,  for,  if 
such  were  not  the  case  all  would  be  confused  and  disorder,  but 
this  brings  the  mind  to  grasp  the  idea  of  a  creator,  and  by 
grasping  this  idea  the  mind  must  aspire  to  some  power  far 
greater  than  the  entire  universe,  which  is  called  God,  and  that 
God  has  all  power  and  wisdom  to  direct  that  which  is  created, 
and  with  this  understanding  man  can  form  a  conclusion  of  the 
relation  between  man  and  his  creator.     Man  does  not  need  to 
live  in  doubt  concerning  the  God  life,  he  can  turn  to  the  Bible, 
containing  all  of  the  writings  and  prophecies  and  find  there 
the  word  of  God,  telling  of  the  creation  and  of  its  purpose  for 
man.    Why  do  men  not  believe  these  writings?      Can  you  not 
believe  the  writings  of  the  Bible  ?    Surely  you  must  if  you  rea- 


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son  carefully,  and  are  sincere  in  this  life  you  now  live.  The 
Bible,  you  will  find,  contains  fo~d  for  your  entire  earthly  exist- 
ence. It  must  not  all  be  taken  in  material  facts,  but  when  read 
and  spiritually  digested,  it  prepares  yen  for  your  spiritual  life 
with  God,  and  to  enjoy  God's  glory  we  must  read  this  good 
book  and  start  our  heavenly  "life  on  earth.  No  works  of  litera- 
ture, no  matter  from  what  translation,  can  give  as  much  food 
to  the  soul  as  the  simple  pure  life,  as  tausrht  by  Jesus.  Xo  re- 
ligion can  give  a  greater  example  to  follow  than  the  life  of 
Christ  and  his  word  to  live  by.  The  time  had  come  when  man 
needed  a  spiritual  awakening.  The  creator  knew  what 
was  needed  and  for  this  reason  Jesus  came  among 
men.  Jesus  gave  the  life  required  to  attain  unto  the 
understanding  of  man's  relations  to  God  the  father,  and  yet 
many  men  fancy  they  discovered  an  easier  way,  but  the  more 
they  twist  these  teachings  of  Christ  the  more  entangled  be- 
come the  thoughts  of  men,  and  by  trying  to  find  an  easier 
way  they  become  farther  and  farther  away  from  this  Christ 
life.  You  take  a  rock  and  throw  it  out  in  the  mighty  sea  and 
watch  the  circles  around  the  spot  where  the  rock  had  been 
tossed  and  you  will  notice  that  there  are  many  circles  around 
where  the  rock  had  sunk  each  circle  getting  further  and  fur- 
ther away  from  the  center  and  at  last  they  lose  their  power 
and  can  not  be  seen,  leaving  clearly  the  one  way  undisturbed 
from  any  emotion.  This  is  like  man-made  creeds,  they  are 
drifting  away  from  the  great  center  of  this  life  force,  thus 
the  condition  of  spiritual  affairs  of  today  so  many  ways  all 
supposing  to  be  a  more  direct  way  with  the  understanding  of 
God. 

The  man  of  the  future  will  discover  the  one  simple  true 
way  and  that  is  to  live  the  Christ  life  in  every  department  of 
his  existence.  When  man  walk  in  this  true  life  then  will  pov- 
erty be  no  more,  the  riches  will  be  for  all,  not  to  a  few,  and 
crime  will  be  past.  This  will  brine:  all  to  be  the  Christ  man  in 
all.  It  will  be  man  to  man,  all  of  one  great  army  of  soldiers, 
marching  with  peace  the  world  over.  All  will  be  of  one  reli- 
gion, one  language  and  one  people.  This  Christ  life  will  seem 
more  sweeter  and  m^re  glorious,  because  you  have  become 
awakened  and  the  spiritual  nature  has  been  aroused,  and  you 
have  become  God's  children,  and  you  can  prepare  the  way 
for  those  yet  unborn  to  follow  in  the  footsteps  of  real  heroes, 
those  who  dare  to  live  a  Christ  life  and  be  living  examples  cf 
his  truth.  They  will  also  pense  all  of  the  beauty  in  which  he 
lives.  When  mortal  man  lives  in  his  material  senses,  they  do 
not  see  or  realize  the  splendor  all  around  them  waiting  for 
man  to  discover  it  for  himself.  As  this  grandeur  is  all  around 
you  waiting  for  man  to  recognize  it,  so  is  God  all  around  you. 


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waiting  for  man  to  discover  God  within  his  soul  consciousness. 
When  you  become  conscious  of  this  Christ  life  and  live  it,  it 
will  help  man  of  the  future  to  become  more  God  conscious  and 
will  recognize  God  and  his  relation  to  all  life ;  and  when  man 
knows  this  truth  this  will  bring  peace  on  earth,  good  will  to- 
ward man,  and  the  world  will  become  more  beautiful  to  all 
for  having  lived  this  life  on  earth. 

By  living  a  good  life  it  supplies  a  reasoning  force  and  gives 
also  understanding  of  love  and  justice  which  is  the  highest  ex- 
pression of  God's  law  or  life  to  man,  differing  from  the  animal 
life  in  a  very  marked  degree.  When  man  has  an  understand- 
ing of  life  and  lives  it,  this  is  the  ideal  man  by  means  of  the 
Christ  life.  We  will  drift  back  to  the  human  birth,  which  is 
somewhat  of  a  mystery,  surrounded  by  intelligence  unseen  by 
man  only  through  the  result  that  a  living  babe  has  been  born 
by  means  of  natural  law.  Man  realizes  that  human  birth  is  the 
greatest  of  God's  creations,  because  it  gives  intelligence  to 
live  and  act  through  that  physical  form.  As  man  develops  in 
body  so  does  he  develop  in  spiritual  thought,  he  has  some  un- 
derstanding of  life  in  some  form,  but  he  does  not  become  in- 
terested enough  in  the  life  he  lives  to  grow  to  a  Christ  life, 
which  the  highest  expression  of  God's  law,  or  life  to  man,  dif- 
fering from  the  animal  life.  Mineral  and  vegetable  life, 
having  no  reasoning  or  thinking  capacities  are  then  of  a  lower 
order.  This  brings  their  vibrations  to  a  much  less  rate  than 
is  necessary  for  other  forms  in  life.  Man  must  learn  to  know 
that  the  human  life  vibrates  to  the  highest  and  most  sensitive 
of  all  God's  creations.  Man  is  created  in  the  likeness  of  God 
and  the  human  life  vibrates  to  the  highest  because  man  is  soul ; 
but  while  this  soul  has  its  dwelling  within  a  human  body  it 
has  to  comply  with  natural  law,  and  vibrate  to  the  vibrations 
necessary  for  the  existence  of  the  human  body.  Whatever 
vibrations  you  dwell  in  here  on  earth,  so  at  death  of  the  body, 
then  the  soul  vibrates  to  a  greatly  increased  activity,  it  takes 
its  flight  to  that  sphere  in  life  where  it  is  attracted  to  by  the 
same  vibrations  that  you  lived  in  on  earth.  All  souls  do  not 
enter  into  the  same  sphere  in  the  spiritual  life.  The  soul  or  the 
spirit's  vibrations  in  one  instance  are  all  alike,  but  the  differ- 
ence in  vibrations  depends  upon  the  spiritual  growth  that  a 
soul  has  developed  during  its  earthly  life,  while  temporarily 
using  the  human  body;  consequently,  at  death  the  spirit  takes 
its  flight  and  enters  its  own  sphere  of  activity.  We  will  carry 
man  little  deeper  into  God  and  his  life 's  mystery,  for  man  must 
not  think  they  can  live  a  reckless  life  on  earth  and  at  death 
their  soul  shall  enter  the  highest  sphere ;  it  depends  upon  the 
spiritual  growth  that  a  soul  has  developed  during  its  earthly 
life ;  but  as  you  advance  and  develop  in  this  Christ  life  on  earth 
you  will  take  your  place  in  the  advanced  sphere  in  God's  King- 


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dom.  A  spirit  can  not  belong  to  a  higher  sphere  and  desire 
to  live  in  a  lower  one  and  use  the  same  vibrations  from  the 
higher  into  the  lower  sphere,  although  theacpirit  can  at  will  re- 
main in  a  lower  sphere  if  it  desires,  thus  the  spirit  must  adjust, 
or  accept  the  conditions  of  that  sphere  and  become  one  of  its 
law,  and  abide  by  its  atmosphere.  The  spirit  that  is  not  ad- 
vanced and  is  of  the  lower  sphere  cannot  go  of  its  freedom 
into  the  higher  spiritual  spheres,  but  a  higher  spirit  can  go 
into  the  lower  spheres  for  a  brief  period  without  changing  the 
vibrations  permanently  unless  the  spirit  desires  to  remain,  then 
the  spirit  must  comply  with  law.  The  same  is  on  earth ;  you  of 
a  Christ  life  can  go  and  work  with  those  who  do  not  recognize 
the  life  they  live  in,  but  you  can  not  live  the  life  with  them  in 
the  lower  elements  and  still  hold  the  higher  power  of  progress 
within  yourself,  for  it  must  be  one  or  the  other,  so  it  is  in  the 
spiritual  world.  We  can  go  down  and  tell  them  to  arise  and 
come  forth  to  their  God,  which  lifts  them  to  a  higher  sphere  if 
they  care  to  do  so. 

To  live  an  ideal  man  by  means  of  the  Christ  life,  you  must 
live  and  do  as  Christ  did.  Christ  realized  that  in  order  to  have 
success  in  his  life's  purpose,  he  must  not  l^se  sight  of  God.  He 
worked  only  by  means  of  spiritual  forces  or  law.  He  knew  that 
it  was  useless  to  go  to  material  means  for  power  to  reach  the 
suffering  humanity.  He  always  led  the  way  to  God,  for  help 
and  comfort,  thus  endeavoring  to  use  the  mental  vibrations  of 
the  people  with  the  spiritual.  There  will  be  no  ideal  man  as 
long  as  they  prefer  to  see  only  the  material  side  of  life.  Here 
is  where  they  lose  their  spiritual  growth.  There  is  much  talk- 
ing of  God  among  people;  but  talking  alone  will  never  make 
you  God  conscious.  To  know  God  the  awakening  must  come 
from  within  your  being,  then  you  are  in  touch  with  the  vibra- 
tions leading  upward  to  God.  You  then  become  conscious  of 
God  through  his  law,  and  become  conscious  of  Christ  through 
his  love.  This  conception  of  truth  develops  the  ideal  man  to 
the  most  perfect  stage  in  his  mortal  life  and  induces  through 
his  effort  and  aspirations  to  know  of  God  creating  a  greater 
mental  and  spiritual  rate  of  vibration  in  the  development  of 
his  soul.  You  will  then  behold  the  necessity  of  the  influence 
of  Christ's  life  to  awakened  being.  You  will  find  recorded  in 
the  Bible,  that  the  life  of  Christ  is  certainly  an  inspiration  to 
the  thinking  man.  Christ  taught  the  lesson  to  overcome  temp- 
tations and  the  gaining  of  self  mastery  through  efforts  to  live 
the  pure  life,  and  showing  you  the  added  spiritual  power  of 
God  and  the  recompense.  Christ  lived  a  simple  and  clean  life, 
but  mingled  with  all  classes,  and  administered  his  service  _wher- 
ever  required,  under  the  right  conditions.  You  will  now  ask 
what  were  these  conditions?  They  were  simply  through  spir- 
itual laws,  and  that  law  was  faith  in  God.  You  may  ask  why 


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was  it  necessary  to  have  faith?  Because  having  faith  in  God 
awakened  the  vibration  necessary  in  that  person  to  come 
into  right  communion  with  spiritual  law,  in  order  to  be  healed 
or  cleansed  from  sin.  Christ  understood  that  in  order  to  have 
success  in  his  life  purpose  he  could  not  lose  sight  of  God.  When 
you  become  sincere  in  trying  to  live  the  Christ  life  this  attunes 
your  aspirations  to  the  higher  rate  of  vibration  in  the  spiritual 
life.  You  then  come  in  touch  with  those  higher-  souls  and  an- 
gels who  live  in  the  God  vibration.  When  y~u  realize  this 
truth,  thus  enabling  you  to  become  more  spiritually  awak- 
ened to  the  more  beautiful  in  life  you  will  then  know  real  hap- 
piness in  this  life  and  you  become  more  active,  and  you  will 
always  be  ready  to  assist  those  who  desire  assistance,  for  your 
only  desire  now  is  to  elevate  yourself  and  your  fellow  man, 
for  you  have  become  conscious  of  the  never-ceasing  activity  in 
life.  As  God's  life  vibrates  within  you  and  Christ's  love  dwells 
within  your  soul.  These  twTo  sreat  forces  make  the  ideal  man 
by  means  of  the  Christ  life,  therefore  you  shall  never  make  a 
mistake  by  following  in  his  footsteps,  f~r  every  time  you  make 
one  step  in  his  footsteps  this  leads  you  one  step  higher  on  the 
ladder  of  spiritual  growth,  for.  every  step  higher  means  eternal 
life,  but  man  that  do  not  try  to  follow  the  Christ  life  he  takes 
one  step  backward  which  means' stagnation  t^  the  spiritual  part 
of  man,  and  when  you  become  awakened  to  this  truth  it  is  just 
so  much  more  to  the  climbed  pgain,  and  each  time  you  take  a 
step  backward  it  becomes  harder  and  harder  *"  gain  a  glimpse 
of  the  spiritual  life,  as  every  err~r  you  make  means  darkness 
and  when  walking  in  the  d^rl-  t^e  >*yes  became  weak  to  the 
light  and  you  do  not  care  t^  look  at  the  light  and  you  again 
turn  to  the  dark  for  you  imagine  that  the  dark  is  better  for 
your  eyes.  This  shows  that  you  have  lost  si<?ht  of  this  life  you 
now  are  living  in.  0.  man,  where  are  your  eyes  that  you  can 
not  behold  this  beauty  in  a  spiritual  way  and  the  light  which 
Christ  left  here  for  man  to  see,  which  gives  its  rays  unto  the 
greater  life  of  peace  and  joy,  this  greater  life  is  not  hard  to 
gain  it  is  only  overcoming  of  low  desires,  created  falsely  by 
mortal  error.  Open  your  eyes  to  the  light  and  have  them  grow 
strong  in  the  light  and  see  God  in  all  glory,  for  he  gives  you 
the  freedom  to  come  into  the  greater  life  of  everlasting  joy. 
God  closes  the  p~ate  to  no  one,  unless  he  chooses  to  close  it  by 
living  a  life  of  sin.  Christ  has  taught  you  that  temptation  is  a 
mighty  power,  but  it  loses  in  the  end,  for  sin  must  die  and 
spiritual  live  eternally.  Man  of  earth,  why  choose  the  life  of 
error,  which  causes  destruction  and  darkness,  when  you  could 
choose  the  light  unto  life  eternal.  You  are  only  placed  here 
for  a  short  sojourn  on  earth,  and  you  have  been  placed  here 
for  one  orreat  purpose  and  value,  that  you  may  enter  into  the 
spiritual  spheres.  You  will  then  rejoice  at  the  great  victory 


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over  all  evil  influences,  instead  of  being  stupid  in  this  great 
life  and  yielding  to  evil,  thus  causing  you  upon  your  entrance 
into  the  spiritual  world  in  darkness,  where  you  can  not  behold 
the  beautiful  rays  of  light  as  it  will  hurt  your  eyes.  So  follow 
the  life  of  Christ  even  if  y<~u  be  alone.  If  all  man  would  try 
to  do  this  the  outcome  would  be  the  Christ  man,  in  all  God  and 
life's  mystery  would  not  be  a  hard  problem  to  solve  for  the 
way  would  be  open  unto  you.  Rise  and  be  not  afraid  to  follow 
the  life  of  Christ  and  live  an  ideal  man  by  means  of  a  Christ 
life. 


CHAPTER  VII 
The  Ascension  or  Descension  of  Life 

There  are  two  'ways  in  life 's  walk,  by  which  man  may 
choose  the  way  he  'desires  to  travel.  The  ascension  is  to  climb 
the  ladder  unto  Jife,  and  descension  is  to  descend  down  the  lad- 
der into  degradation  of  character.  So  life  is  composed  of  two 
ladders.  To  climb  means  effort,  and  to  fall  means  non-resist- 
ance or  easy  traveling.  This  is  man 's  life  on  earth.  Some  men 
choose  fto  live  the  real  Christ  life.  This,  you  understand,  re- 
quires effort,  simply  because  you  withdraw  from  the  sham  of 
the  worldly,  and  enter  into  the  soul  conscious  life  which  takes 
you  upward  on  life's  ladder  into  the  God  life  which  enables 
you  to  grow  stronger  and  stronger  into  this  spiritual  truth.  To 
live  the  real  life  you  must  become  strong  and  be  able  to  re- 
sist criticism  of  those  who  do  not  know  the  way  to  become 
strong,  you  must  be  true  to  yourself.  You  must  be  fearless  to 
live  for  truth  sake ;  you  must  do  unto  others  as  you  would  have 
them  do  unto  you.  Be  patient  with  your  fellowmen.  Be  true 
unto  each  other.  Learn  to  understand  each  other.  Take  noth- 
ing from  another  which  does  not  belong  to  you.  Recognize  the 
law  of  justice  with  all,  as  unto  yourself  that  you  may  grow 
more  into  the  greater  consciousness  of  life.  Do  not  allow  your- 
self to  become  engulfed  in  the  stream  of  graft,  greed  arid 
jealousy,  but  keep  your  eyes  open  that  you  may  see  God  and 
have  his  life  reflected  into  your  soul,  that  you  may  become 
Christ-like.  These  establishes  a  character  which  are  the  attri- 
butes of  your  soul.  These  will  be  before  your  vision  like  mir- 
rored on  your  entrance  into  the  next  sphere  of  life  in  the  spirit- 
ual world.  It  matters  not  which  ladder  of  life  you  choose,  your 
life  journey  on  earth  will  be  before  you  in  the  spirit  world.  So 
let  the  ladder  of  life  be  placed  on  solid  rock  so  when  you  start 
your  life 's  climb,  that  the  foundation  will  not  crumble  from  un- 
der the  ladder,  this  means  destruction.  So  live  this  life  that 
you  may  grow  more  into  the  greater  consciousness  of  life. 

There  are  some  who  prefer  to  take  life  easy.  They  drift 
along  their  life's  journey  with  the  tide,  or  to  the  modern  sway 
of  life.  They  like  to  feel  that  they  are  popular.  Consequently 
they  drift  away  from  God  and  allow  themselves  to  be  carried 
by  the  social  whirl  to  be  like  other  people,  and  to  be  recog- 
nized as  they  think  "somebody".  How  easy  to  build  a  founda- 
tion in  your  life  that  will  not  stand  for  you  have  taken  an  easy 
way  to  travel  in  your  life.  This  means  of  existence  is  the  be- 
ginning of  descension  in  human  life.  When  once  y^u  endeavor 
to  live  a  life  of  mockery,  for  when  you  simply  live  like  someone 
else,  just  to  be  in  the  lead,  you  are  descending  the  ladder  into 
degradation  of  character  and  you  demoralize  your  spiritual  self 
or  soul ;  you  are  becoming  blind  to  God,  for  you  are  being  car- 


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Tied  away  by  the  material  glitter  of  a  false  life,  one  step  down- 
ward makes  it  much  easier  for  the  next  step  lower.  Man  real- 
izes the  fact  in  or<fer  to  keep  up  this  struggle  to  be  unnatural, 
he  must  become  selfish,  also  untruthful  totimself  and  his  asso- 
ciates. He  is  living  and  representing  himself  what  he  really 
is  not,  so  he  sins  one  sin  after  another,  from  little  unto  larger 
acts  creeps  into  his  life  of  false  pretenses;  this  leads  him  to 
become  indifferent  to  his  real  life  or  spiritual  nature  and  pre- 
fers to  live  the  mortal  life  of  the  flesh.  When  he  awakenes  up 
to  the  fact  of  his  real  life  he  finds  himself  at  the  foot  of  this 
ladder  and  beholds  that  everything  is  dark  and  gloomy  in  the 
outlook  of  his  life.  He  will  then  realize  the  wasted  energy  and 
in  his  despair  he  wishes  to  die.  He  does  not  realize  the  fact 
that  his  conditions  after  death  is  no  better  than  when  on  earth 
for  he  has  not  lived  to  make  them  better.  Just  think  what  it 
means  to  you,  the  entrance  to  the  greater  life.  After  death 
then  ccmes  a  greater  realization  of  life.  You  will  not  realize 
your  wasted  energy,  for  your  acts  through  life  presents  them- 
selves more  keenly  and  alive  to  you.  You  will  then  behold  the 
real  life  you  lived  while  on  earth,  for  death  is  a  mirror  which 
reflects  the  true  likeness  of  yourself.  I  wish  I  could  bring  this 
as  a  picture  before  the  eyes  of  every  living  humanity  of  earth, 
that  they  could  know  the  consequences  of  their  life  on  earth 
are  reflected  in  the  mirror  of  death.  I  think  that  man  would 
endeavor  to  look  more  to  Christ  and  live  the  true  life  rather 
than  follow  the  life  of  recklessness.  The  majority  would  rather 
climb  the  ladder  into  eternal  glory,  even  if  it  required  effort 
at  first,  rather  than  to  live  a  mortal  life  rf  the  flesh  to  only 
gratify  passion  for  a  few  years,  and  then  become  a  worthless 
being  and  a  dishonor  to  God.  0,  ye  men  and  women  of  earth, 
waken  up  the  true  life  within  and  learn  to  know  thy  God  and 
become  souls  of  worthy  men  and  women  of  good  character,  fear- 
less to  live  a  true  life  regardless  of  the  petty  critisisms  of  those 
who  understand  not,  by  thyself  always  and  remember  it  is 
those  who  dare  to  live  the  true  life,  that  sets  the  example  unto 
others.  It  is  those  who  fear  not  what  the  public  say  and  live 
as  Christ  did,  to  be  just  and  l~yal  to  their  higher  selves  who 
are  the  lights  in  God's  world  to  lead  the  way,  when  you  become 
troubled  go  by  yourself  and  pray  that  your  vision  will  become 
stronger  to  enable  you  to  continue  your  mission  on  earth  and 
thy  glory  shall  be  yours.  Christ  lived  and  suffered  through  the 
misunderstanding  of  the  people,  but  he  never  lost  sight  of  God. 
Note  the  example  his  life  left  for  men.  He  taught  the  glory  of 
the  pure  life  and  the  victory  won.  Seek  to  know  each  other 
and  bring  harmony  into  your  souls  and  climb  the  lad- 
der unto  life  together  as  you  become  stronger,  it  en- 
ables you  to  climb  higher  and  higher,  and  by  living  a 
true  life  with  yourself  you  will  feel  grateful  when  you  see  your- 


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self  in  the  mirror  of  death  that  you  have  reflected  a  soul  that  is 
born  from  earth  unto  life  with  the  rays  of  God's  glory  with 
it,  and  all  together  all  may  enter  into  the  Kingdom  of  heaven 
and  be  honor  to  God  and  know  what  it  me^is  to  live  a  life  on 
earth  well  spent.  Make  your  life 's  ladder  one  of  ascension  and 
reap  of  this  wonderful  glory,  instead  of  descension  and  gain 
nothing,  but  loose  much,  for  as  ye  live  so  shall  ye  be. 


CHAPTER  VIII 
The  Spiritual  Spheres 

The  world  you  live  in  is  quite  large  indeed.  And  yet  you 
do  not  know  the  immense  space  that  is  all  around  you.  This 
is  the  spiritual  sphere  and  your  eyes  can  not  behold  the  beauty 
of  this  space.  Why?  Because  you  have  not  become  spiritual. 
This  comes  after  y^u  have  lived  your  life  on  earth  and  have 
taken  up  your  new  life  in  the  spiritual  spheres.  You,  of  earth, 
cannot  leave  your  earthly  home  and  come  and  dwell  with  those 
of  the  spiritual  world,  so  it  is  in  the  spiritual  world,  those  of 
the  lower  spheres  cannot  come  up  into  the  higher  spheres,  for 
all  souls  do  not  vibrate  in  the  same  spiritual  spheres  here  in 
the  spiritual  world  no  more  than  you  all  vibrate  in  the  same 
thought  on  earth  and  yet  the  vibrations  in  one  instance  are  all 
alike,  but  some  has  developed  this  life  and  live  a  higher  life  than 
those  that  do  not  give  this  life  a  thought,  consequently,  at  death 
you  enter  this  spiritual  sphere  as  you  lived  on  earth,  and  you 
must  accept  the  conditions  of  that  sphere  and  become  one  of  its 
law.  and  abide  by  its  atmosphere  until  you  have  advanced  to  a 
higher  sphere,  and  so  on  all  through  eternity,  if  you  wish  to 
navigate  the  air.  then  you  must  abide  by  law  and  take  on 
means  of  navigation,  before  you  can  ascend  and  sail  in  the  earth 
atmosphere,  and  these  means  are  of  material  construction  to 
hold  your  body,  that  you  might  be  passed  through  the  air  at 
certain  heights  above  the  ground. 

You  may  ask  why  is  it  necessary  to  have  material  convey- 
ance that  you  might  sail  in  the  atmosphere  ?  Simply  that  your 
body  does  not  move  to  the  same  rate  of  vibration  as  the  atmo- 
sphere of  the  earth.  You  may  think  that  every  thing  is  still, 
but  nothing  is  still,  while  it  may  appear  so  to  your  eyes.  All 
life  is  vibration  or  motion,  ceaseless  and  tireless,  and  you  do 
not  know  it.  Yet  everything  is  in  activity  in  some  form  or  an- 
other. And  as  you  try  to  live  a  spiritual  life  the  more  sensitive 
you  become  to  the  finer  forces  in  life,  the  greater  are  your  vi- 
brations. Yes.  I  will  say  the  more  you  become  awakened  to  the 
spiritual  life  while  in  the  material  world ;  and  you  realize  the 
fact  that  you  are  alive  arid  know  that  the  spiritual  is  in  all 
forms  or  expressions  of  life,  because  you  are  watchful  to  the 
greater  law  of  life.  You  see  and  understand  the  indestructible 
force  named  life  of  God  and  as  you  become  conscious  of  God 
through  his  law  there  can  you  become  conscious  of  Christ 
through  his  love.  This  we  must  learn  to  know  in  the  spiritual 
world  as  well  as  on  earth  if  we  ever  expect  to  share  the  srlory 
God  has  in  store  for  us  all.  It  is  just  as  much  of  a  necessity  to 
live  in  the  higher  spheres  on  earth  as  it  is  in  spiritual  world, 
for  all  is  in  one  life  and  of  one  life.  This  brings  up  all  one  with 
God.  We  of  the  spiritual  spheres  can  not  come  to  earth  and 


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remain  here  long  and  live  in  the  law  of  the  higher  spheres  of 
the  spiritual  law  if  we  choose  to  remain  near  earth.    We  must 
abide  by  the  law  which  is  of  that  sphere,  but  we  are  permitted 
to  come  down  to  earth  for  a  very  short  period  to  fill  a  mission 
that  God  has  granted  for  us  to  do,  but  we  of  the  higher  sphere 
can  not  come  down  to  the  ones  of  earth  of  the  lower  realms  on 
earth,  the  one  must  live  a  life  of  truth  and  as  uear  a  Christ- 
life  as  their  understanding  has  taken  them  into  this  life  on 
earth,  those  of  the  lower  spheres  in  the  spiritual  world  come  to 
their  kind  of  the  lower  spheres  of . the  earth  and  they  remain 
very  close  to  earth  at  all  times,  for  they  have  not  learned  to 
open  the  door  of  their  soul  and  let  the  God  light  shine,  and 
until  they  have  learned  of  the  true  being  of  their  life  they 
will  remain  in  darkness,  fr-r  all  souls  do  not  vibrate  in  the 
same  spiritual  spheres  and  therefore  we  can  not  mingle  togeth- 
er and  abide  by  the  same  law,  for  God's  law  rules  all  his  glory 
and  to  live  in  his  glory  we  must  abide  by  his  law.     Try  your 
utmost  while  on  earth  to  live  and  abide  by  God's  law  and  this 
will  help  your  soul's  journey  homeward  in  the  spiritual  spheres 
and  to  find  the  mansion  prepared  for  thee.     This  will  be  the 
outcome  of  a  good  life  to  the  higher  spiritual  spheres.    Can  you 
not  look  around  you  on  earth  and  see  many  who  do  not  give 
one  thought  of  their  life  to  their  heavenly  home?     And  you 
say,     0,  man,  where  art  thou  that  you  do  not  recognize  one 
thing  of  this  life  as  the  God  life  and  his  life  within  yourself. 
His  has  been  lead  by  the  mighty  power  of  temptation,  but  loses 
in  the  end,  for  error  must  die,  and  spirituality  lives  eternally. 
We  will  carry  you  a  little  further  into  this  spiritual  life  by 
means  of  a  good  life  from  mortal  to  the  spiritual  sphere.    Has 
it  ever  entered     your  consciousness  that  you     have  a  similar 
choice  within  your  life,  as  to  the  way  you  desire  to  travel,  mor- 
ally and  spiritually?    You  live  the  moral  life  before  you  can 
reach  the  spiritual  unfoldment  of  your  character.    Do  you  not 
see  many  more  morally  good  men  and  women  than  spiritually 
unfolded  characters.     Not  many  people  understand  the  vast 
difference  between  a  moral  man  or  a  spiritual  man.    Take  for 
instance  an  illustration  suggests  itself  as  the   difference  be- 
tween a  rosebud  and  the  full-blown  rose   of  perfection   and 
fragrance.     So  it  is  the  vast  difference  between  mortal  man 
and  a  spiritual  man.     A  man  may  be  a  good  moral  man  and 
yet  not  be  God  conscious.     There  is  a  tendency  in  such  a  life 
to  yield  to  temptations.     He  may  feel  he  has  been  sincere  in 
thinking  there  is  a  God,  or  that  Christ  lived,  but  with  all  the 
thinking  will  never  make  him  God-conscious ;  he  must  feel  the 
God  Christ  life  within  his  soul;  this  sense  of  feeling  at  once 
awakens  and  quickens  the  most  sacred  impulse  to  live  a  pure 
life.     When  thus     you  sense  this  feeling  you     are  protected 
against  temptation  and  sin,  and  as  you  live  near  God  you  rise 


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above  temptation  and  you  become  that  much  more  illumined 
within  your  being  with  the  light  that  Christ  referred  to  when 
he  said:  "I  am  the  light".  And  do  you  not  know  this  glorious 
light  is  the  spiritual  life  that  makes  you  more  and  more  beau- 
tiful. This  light  can  not  help  but  express  itself — through  the 
eyes  of  your  physical  body.  And  your  soul  become  more  beau- 
tiful and  thus  preparing  you  for  the  time  for  your  soul's  jour- 
ney homeward  in  the  spiritual  sphere.  This  is  in  accordance 
to  your  earthly  life  and  is  the  outcome  in  my  father's  house 
are  many  mansions — I  go  to  prepare  a  place  for  thee.  "I  am 
the  light  and  the  way,  to  lead  you  unto  the  father."  What 
more  can  man  wish  than  these  glorious  promises?  Does  man 
riot  know  when  he  yields  to  temptations,  even  through  nature's 
law  of  transgression  that  he  only  creates  misery  by  choosing 
that  route  he  must  suffer  for  his  mistakes  for  every  being  can 
be  moral :  and  every  beine  knows  right  from  wrong  even  a 
child's  intuitive  proves  this:  Man  has  been  placed  here  with 
his  own  life,  and  he  has  no  one  over  him.  He  is  given  life  t  > 
choose  from  the  biddings  of  his  own  conscience,  the  lower  life 
or  the  higher.  Man  has  his  won  problem  to  work  out  and  if  he 
prefers  to  close  the  door  and  shut  out  God's  voice  known  as 
conscience  and  blind  his  eyes  to  the  light,  and  trying  to  think 
that  he  is  the  possessor  of  his  soul  and  can  do  as  he  pleases 
about  his  way  of  living,  endeavoring  to  feel  there  is  no  higher 
power  than  of  himself,  and  by  living  within  these  thoughts  he 
does  not  advance  very  far  mentally  or  spiritually,  but  he  must 
travel  the  long,  long  road  towards  the  end,  which  comes  to  all. 
Death  or  life  as  your  choice.  I  do  not  mean  eternal  death,  for 
life  never  dies,  but  a  death  like  stagnation  which  may  taV^ 
years  and  years  to  overcome.  And  to  overcome  this  stagnation 
you  must  be  willing  to  open  the  door  that  the  God  life  may 
enter.  If  not,  you  can  not  escape  from  your  destination;  if 
not  in  mortal  life  y°u  must  be  awakened  in  the  spiritual 
spheres.  You  would  think  man  could  be  more  careful  in  chos- 
ing  the  long  route  to  travel  that  they  would  not  come  to  death 
sta^nati^n  and  loose  the  light  and  glory  of  the  spiritual  life. 
There  is  much  in  a  man 's  life  that  seems  to  fascinate  your  imag- 
ination which  leads  you  to  the  downward  steps,  and  yet  you 
realize  that  you  are  on  the  wrong  road,  and  yet  to  turn  back 
you  say  seems  cowardly.  So  you  go  on  and  on,  but  when  you 
realize  your  mistake,  you  should  stop,  for  in  reality  it  is  not 
turning  back,  for  when  you  are  conscious  of  error  and  you 
correct  it.  and  this  brings  you  a  step  forward,  instead  of  one 
step  downward.  When  the  spiritual  part  of  your  desires  to 
rule  never  feel  timid,  for  fear  of  criticism  from  your  so-called 
friends,  of  the  downward  life,  the  one  called  friend  is  on  who 
will  clasp  you  by  the  hand  and  rejoice  at  your  victory  of  turn- 
ing back  into  the  right  road  and  when  yni  once  overcome  this 


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great  error  in  your  life  you  will  never  entertain  fear  of  mortal 
man  and  stop  at  man's  criticism,  but  you  will  walk  firmly  in 
the  light  that  Christ  gave  to  you.  With  your  eyes  open  wide 
and  no  more  will  you  fear  of  going  in  the  wrong  path  and  you 
will  ever  be  ready  to  assist  those  who  need  you  and  by  assisting 
others  just  so  much  more  richly  are  you  assisted  in  becoming 
God  conscious,  thus  the  outcome  of  a  good  life  from  mortal  to 
the  spiritual  sphere,  and  you  will  smile  with  God  and  live  in 
his  eternal  life  for  the  victory  you  have  won. 


CHAPTER  IX 
This  Life  Could  Be  a  Peaceful  One 

Our  lives  on  earth  need  not  be  one  of  sorrow  and  gloom 
if  you  only  understood  the  peaceful  life  that  surrounds  you  at 
all  times,  the  peaceful  life  is  like  unto  a  great  calm  body  of 
water,  whose  surface  is  smooth  and  beautiful,  reflecting  all 
nature's  charms.  Yet  how  easy  can  the  calmness  be  changed 
into  ripples,  with  just  one  little  stone  being  thrown  into  this 
immense  body  of  water  causing  numberless  ripples  or  vibra- 
tions. The  ripples  goes  on  and  on  until  it  has  spent  its  force 
and  becomes  one  with  this  calm  body  of  water  again.  Just 
so  it  is  with  an  unbalanced  human  life.  A  man  may  look  ever 
so  happy  and  be  undisturbed  and  all  is  peaceful  with  him  and 
you  would  think  this  man  would  not  let  anything  come  in  and 
break  this  peaceful  life  of  his.  And  yet  with  some  little  dis- 
turbance, which  may  be  so  small,  which  may  enter  either 
through  his  own  mistake  or  else  some  annoyance  caused  by  an- 
other person,  he  at  once  sets  into  motion  feelings  of  confusion 
and  his  peaceful  life  at  once  becomes  disturbance,  anger,  jeal- 
ousy or  other  wise  according  to  the  emotion  evoked.  Does  this 
not  prove  an  unbalanced  inward  condition,  or  the  opposite 
from  a  well  poised  being?  Does  this  not  prove  that  he  is  not 
yet  of  the  peaceful  life.  Man  has  so  accustomed  himself  to 
consult  with  reasons,  which  often  jumps  at  conclusions  coldly 
and  blindly,  very  frequently  creating  a  self-satisfied  explana- 
tion to  the  one  involved.  Man  must  learn  how  to  consult  his 
spiritual  brain,  but  man  has  not  learned  how,  consequently 
this  organ  has  been  largely  neglected  and  overlooked,  for  there 
is  so  little  real  spirituality  in  the  life  of  mankind.  When 
peaceful  life,  or,  in  other  words,  when  mortals  awaken  to 
real  man,  the  one  who  is  the  dynamic  force  within  the  body 
and  which  is  locked  to  the  body  at  the  center,  wherein  is  con- 
tained the  real  life  and  most  sensitive  brain  belonging  to  the 
real  man  the  spiritual  self-c^nsciou^.  this  organ  the  brain  has 
become  dead  to  the  spiritual  life  and  it  must  be  awakened  and 
brought  into  operation  before  he  can  become  a  spiritual  con- 
scious being  and  as  you  become  awakened  to  your  real  beinar 
yon  will  then  know  as  the  spirit  is  linked  to  the  center  of  your 
body,  just  so  are  you  linked  to  God,  the  center  of  life.  Can 
you  not  see  where  all  should  be  a  peaceful  life  ?  Then  can  you 
not  readily  perceive  how  necessary  it  is  to  awaken  this  spiritual 
brain  in  your  body  in  order  for  you  to  become  God-conscious 
within  your  being  and  the  more  peaceful  you  become  because 
the  spiritual  brain  is  far  more  stronger  than  the  head  brains. 
as  the  spiritual  brain  is  the  ruler,  so  much  of  your  so-called 
trouble,  such  as  anger,  jealousy,  hate,  which  unbalances  the 
inward  condition.  Thus  the  cause  for  so  much  of  the  lower 


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attitudes  within  man  predominating  today  as  in  the  past,  be- 
cause he  does  not  exercise  the  spiritual  brain,  known  as  the 
solar  plexus.  It  has  been  kept  in  subjection  and  the  head  al- 
lowed to  rule  you  can  not  expect  to  go  on  through  your  life  un 
earth  under  such  conditions  and  have,  a  peaceful  life  before 
you.  Man  must  awaken  up  to  the  realization  of  attuning  him- 
self to  God  and  adjustment  of  himself  to  the  spiritual  law  in 
life,  thus  placing  himself  in  the  vibration  which  creates  peace- 
ful conditions.  You  cannot  escape  peaceful  conditions,  for 
life  is  full  of  vibrations,  whether  conscious  of  their  existence 
or  not,  you  must  come  in  touch  of  this  vibration,  then  do  you 
really  begin  to  live  to  understand  and  to  create  an  inward 
peaceful  life  which  surely  will  reflect  and  radiate  peace  which 
cannot  easily  be  disturbed,  by  man  of  earth,  for  you  have  be- 
come one  with  this  peaceful  life,  and  you  know  of  this  won- 
derful strength,  for  your  strength  comes  from  the  interior,  and 
never  from  the  exterior,  and  if  you  give  this  one  thought  you 
will  observe  this  in  natural  law  all  through  life.  Everything 
in  life  draws  from  the  real  force.  Everything  that  comes  forth 
from  the  ground  draws  from  this  life  force,  for  instance,  the 
branches  of  the  trees  do  not  draw  their  nourishment  from  the 
bark  of  the  tree.  No ;  the  roots  spreads  out  into  the  earth  and 
draws  the  elements  necessary  and  supply  the  huge  trunk,  and 
all  the  branches  draw  from  the  trunk  of  the  tree.  We  can 
place  man  on  the  same  base  with  a  tree,  for  man  draws  or  at- 
tracts to  his  being  all  of  the  necessary  elements  for  the  sus- 
tenance of  the  body,  and  gives  to  the  body  that  life  force  which 
makes  it  alive  and  enables  it  to  operate  in  all  the  diverse  duties 
pertaining  to  the  physical  life  of  man.  The  material  draws 
material  sustenance,  while  the  soul  draws  from  the  life  f^rce. 
Your  soul  draws  all  vibrations  necessary  for  its  nourishment 
to  the  spirit,  while  the  spirit  operates  through  your  physical 
body,  consequently  you  can  understand  how  the  spirit  is  linked 
to  the  soul.  Everything  in  life  draws  fr^m  this  one  force,  thus 
the  soul  then  must  draw  from  God.  the  real  force,  its  life,  an d 
this  one  force  is  the  same  °nly  in  decree,  according  to  your  de- 
mand. You  may  say,  can  everything  draw  fr^m  this  one  life- 
force  and  it  never  exhausts?  No;  the  more  this  life-force  is 
used  or  drawn  from  the  greater  the  supply,  because  it  is  crea- 
tive. In  trying  to  bring  the  truth  to  you  of  this  great  life- 
force  and  trying  to  explain  that  the  inner  supplies  the  outer 
expression  or  form  of  life,  to  enjoy  and  live  this  peaceful  life 
endeavor  to  use  the  inner  soul  brain  to  its  fullness,  this  re- 
requires  calmness,  deliberation,  negativeness  in  solving  all  per- 
plexities, in  other  words,  learn  to  <ro  into  silence  and  learn 
to  know  thy  real  self.  To  know  thyself,  you  would  never  allow 
anger  or  impatience  to  govern  you,  no  matter  the  circumstances 
involved.  When  you  feel  that  anger  is  going  to  govern  you,  at 


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once  wait,  and  calm  yourself,  and  quietly  go  by  yourself  and 
meditate,  think  of  the  great  center  of  all  life,  and  let  this  force 
rule  you,  by  so  doing  think  of  the  great  possibilities  before 
you.  There  is  nothing  to  gain  in  going  backward,  always  push 
ahead  in  your  achievement.  You  have  never  seen  life  go  back. 
God  is  forever  going  on  and  on;  if  he  did  not  then  man  could 
eventually  climb  up  to  him  and  then  there  would  be  an  end. 
So  you  must  go  on  and  on  as  there  is  no  ending  then  there  must 
be  eternal  progression.  To  stand  still  while  you  are  on  earth 
would  be  lifeless.  As  life  is  all  activity  or  vibration,  in  some 
form  or  another,  you  can  not  stand  still  in  this  life.  To  stand 
still  you  would  become  like  stagnant  water  which  is  not  refed 
with  fresh  water  and  becomes  infected  with  germs  of  low  vi- 
brations. To  enjoy  all  the  beauty  around  you,  you  must  keep 
the  soul  alive  with  a  fresh  influx  of  the  God-life ;  this  enables 
the  spirit  to  act  freely,  keenly  and  wisely,  creating  a  healthful 
and  lovely  human  body  for  the  spirit  to  express  itself  through 
in  all  of  its  beauty  and  spiritual  splendor.  Could  you  grasp  the 
full  meaning  of  all  God's  teachings,  you  would  never  feel  dis- 
couraged, no  matter  what  comes  into  your  life  to  become  dis- 
couraged is  like  unto  the  stagnant  water.  Your  life  is  then 
open  to  germs  of  disease  and  low  vibrations  and  you  lose  hold 
of  your  grip  on  the  real  things  of  life,  for  how  could  you  live 
a  peaceful  life  and  be  discouraged?  Do  you  not  know  that 
the  mind  becomes  befogged  and  your  vision  dull  and  you  lose 
opportunities  all  around  you  ?  Always  look  to  God  with  a  new 
hope  then  can  you  "greet  one  another  with  a  kiss  of  charity 
and  peace  be  with  you  all  that  are  in  Christ  Jesus."  1  Peter, 
5  Chapter,  14  verse.  When  man  becomes  more  and  more  to 
the  understanding  of  their  inner  life  they  can  go  forth  and  do 
for  their  fellow  man  and  help  many  to  come  into  this  peaceful 
life  and  be  one  with  the  universe,  and  walk  hand  in  hand  with 
each  other  in  peace  and  thus  bring  better  conditions  into  the 
world.  This  should  be  man's  life  work  here  on  earth  instead  of 
being  discouraged  with  life  and  feel  that  God  has  not  intended 
for  them  to  enjoy  their  life,  when  man  learns  to  look  at  the 
bright  side  of  life  and  endeavors  under  all  conditions  to  keep 
a  calm  repose,  and  by  so  doing  you  are  the  conqueror  and  the 
master  of  your  dominion,  and  when  you  learn  to  be  master, 
then  do  you  attract  new  forces,  and  you  cannot  help  but  create 
new  conditions,  far  more  superior  to  your  old  conditions.  And 
this  should  give  new  strength  to  never  lose  courage  in  this 
great  work  before  you.  Go  forth  and  be  fearless,  be  brave, 
and  never  lose  sight  of  the  center  of  all  life.  God,  greet  your 
fellow  man  with  a  peaceful  love  thought  for  all  humanity  and 
see  if  life  does  not  seem  sweeter  to  you  than  ever  before,  for 
you  have  now  learned  the  God-life  within  vour  own  soul.  Amen. 


L»ay  la  mount 
Pamphlet 

Binder 

Gaylord  Bros..  Inc,  & 

Stockton,  Calif.       2 

T.  M.  Reg.  U.S.  Pat.  Off.  4 


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